Sunday 5 July 2020

16 July: Anita Brookner quotes

Born on this date in 1928 was writer Anita Brookner. 10 quotes from her:


  1. Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
  2. Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
  3. The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
  4. No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
  5. You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
  6. The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
  7. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market.
  8. Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
  9. For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
  10. All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

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